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On Friday 9th of February 2018, our digital district guide developed in Bremen Osterholz was officially launched on the official city portal Bremen.de. As part of the Mobile Age project we worked together with a group of 11 older adults from the district Osterholz from May 2016 to February 2017 to develop a concept for the digital district guide and implement it as a prototype. The result is a map based district guide with information on 17 beautiful places and paths as well as more than 70 institutions from the fields of culture, sports, meeting and counselling. The result of our work has now been migrated to the official city portal of Bremen. You will find the district guide under the following link: www.bremen.de/osterholz/senioren. Such a sustainable adoption of project results is not a matter of course and we are pleased that the results of our work are still accessible and supported after the end of the project.

For the official start of the district guide Ulrich Schlüter, head of the local administration, had invited stakeholders from different districts in Bremen. About 40 people attended the event. Dr. Juliane Jarke (ifib) presented the joint design process and the participant Ursula Bender pointed out how important it was for her to participate in the project in order to get to know the district better and to deal with new media technologies. Dr. Martin Wind (Head of Department at the Senator for Social Affairs, Youth, Women, Integration and Sport) then gave a laudatory speech on the project. He explained how Mobile Age relates to the activities and design plans of the Senatorial Authority with a view to a digital, mobile and inclusive city. Prof. Herbert Kubicek (ifib) and Henning Sklorz (Bremen. Online) presented the implementation on Bremen and explained how other districts could follow the example of Osterholz.

In order to make the district guide accessible to people without access to the internet, a printed brochure of the 17 beautiful squares and paths has been created by our Mobile Age partner, Gov2u, and was available to all participants during the event. Moreover, the brochure can be obtained from the local authorities, the district managers and ifib.

A large number of local actors have supported the co-creation of the district guide by gathering information: the core group of 11 older adults from the distrct, local authority director Ulrich Schlüter and his team, neighbourhood manager Aykut Tasan, Katrin Höpker and Stefan Kunold, the local advisory board of Osterholz, BORiS (citizen online editorial office in the district), the church congregations Trinitatis and Melanchton, the AWO service centre of Osterholz, the Mothers' Centre, the history workshop, the internet café [email protected], the Image Working Group, Ines Hillmann, the Men’s Breakfast Club and many others.